Knitted fabric.



Patented May 28', 1912 'UINETED sens ran-rend:

GEORGE W. CUMMINGQ, GE TROY,'NEW YQRK.

KNITTED Fann e.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Gnoncn VJ. (JUM- rrmos, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knitted Fabrics, of which the following is'a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novel construction and combination of, parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompany- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed ()ctoher 2, ion. Serial No. 852,345.

ing drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents diagrammatically and in exaggerated term a piece or my improved fabric showing the loopsof filiing-thread laid out fiat upon the respective sides of the fabric. Fig. 2 is a similar exaggerated diagrammatic view showing a horizontal section taken through certain of the stitch-loops and certain of the floating threads which connect the stitchloo s together, and showing the manner in which the filling-thread is woven back and :torth through the meshes between the neighboring vertical rows of stitches in the knitted web.

The principal object of the invention is to produce a knitted fabric having on both sides substantially the surface appearance of, and adapted for the uses of, Turkish toweling or similar uncut-pile woven fabric.

ther objects, however, will appear in connection with the following description.

, In carrying out my 'inventionin its proferred form, I weave back" and forth through the meshes of a knitted web of fabric, filling-thread forming projecting loops prominently exposed upon, and substantially covering", both sides of the knitted web, and forming uncut pile-surfaces for the fabric. Fillingdhread may be thus interwoven with the knitted web during, and as part of, the knitting operation performed either by hand or machine.

In the drawings I have shown my inven tion applied tofa preferred form of knitted web, which may be made upon mi ordinary- 1s'prihg needle, cylinder bythe use of a oneand-onev cut presser, the filling-thread being laid' into or interwoven with the knitted by the Patented. May 2%, 33*12.

web by means of suitable burs cooperating with said cylinder. 1

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown in preferred form, the stitches or stitch-loops, 1, appear in vertical rows, the stitches in one row being con net-ted, respectively, with stitches in another row by floating threads, 2 and 52, forming vertical rows of meshes alternating with the vertical rows of stitch-loops;

in thepret erred form of my invention, I employ a plurality of filling-threads, 3 and 4, each appearing in prominently projecting loops upon both sides of the fabric. The tilling-th-read, 3, thus appears in loops, 3", upon one side of the fabric and in loops, 3*, upon the opposite side of the fabric, while the tillingthread, 4:, appears in loops, 4*, upon one side of the fabric and in loops, e' upon the opposite side of the fabric. The filling-threads are woven back and forth through the meshes between the vertical rows of stitch-loops, the loops of each tilling thread on one side of the fabric embrsc ing the respective stitch-loops, ,1, or the knitted web, while the loops of said fillingthread on the opposite side of the fabric em brace, respectively, floating threads, '2 or 2 "filling-threads on the opposite side of the fabric embrace the alternate-floating" threads between neighboring vertical rows so I stitch-loops, and the loops of the other filling-thread on the opposite side of the fabric embrace, respectively, the ren'uuning floating threads. Thus each stitch-loop, 1, is embraced by a loop, 3", and a loop, 4*, of the respective filling-threads, S and hand the alternate floating threads, 2, are embraced respective loops, 3, of the fillingthrea 3, and the remaining "floating threads, 2, are embraced by the respective loops, 4:, of the filling-thread 4,1'

In a fabric made in the manner described, both sides of the fabric will be substantially covered by the projecting loops of fillingthread, giving to the "fabric a henvy body and absorbentqualities adapting it for many uses, and particularly for toweling'.

l or certeiu purposes of the invention, the knitted web may be formed in any known manner, and any desired number of fillingthreads may be employed and so interwoven through the meshes of the knitted web as to attain the objects above set forth.

For certain purposes of my invention the loops of fillingthread, whether formed by a single thread or a plurality of threads, are so elongated that they are adapted to overlap one another upon either side of the web, and are adapted to overlap other rowsof stitches of the knitted web than the rows from which said elongated loops respectively project.

In the preferred form of my invention, the elongated loops of filling-thread overlap one another and substantially cover both surfaces of the knitted web.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A fabric comprisin a knitted web and filling-thread woven bacll'and forth through the meshes between vertical rows of stitches in said web, and prominently exposed in the form of projecting loops upon both sides of the web, said loops upon one side of the Web embracing the respective stitches in said vertical rows, and said loops upon the opposite side of said web embracing, respectively floating threads which connect together stitches in one with stitches in another of said vertical rows.

- 2. A fabric comprising a knitted web and filling-thread interwoven therewith and exposed in prominent loops upon the surface of the fabric, said web having each of its floating threads which connect together stitches in different vertical rows, embraced by a filling-thread.

3. A fabric comprising a knitted web and a plurality of filling-threads, woven back and forth through the meshes between neighboring vertical rows of stitches in said web, said filling-threads being prominently exposed in the form of projecting loops upon the surface of the fabric, loops of one of said filling-threads embracing respec tively certain, only, of the floating threads which connect together stitches in different vertical rows, and loops of another of said filling threads embracing certain other, only, of said floating threads.

in testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of. September, 1911.

ononon w. CUMMINGS.

\Vitnesses R. A. LEDUC, J. E. DorzsBAoH. 

